On installation of base system it would complain that there was no /proc
- I created one by hand and that error went away.

Hmm, that could be a "not yet reported AMD64 thingy" ...

Next error:

It would fail at installing base-passwd - complains about missing file or
directory during a tar. I checked and all the mount points were there and
all the directories used exist?? This one Is the show stopper for me -
any hints??

Provide more information, like the name of the file that is missing.

I got past this - creating the /target/proc and rerunning the 'install base
system' caused a second error

Could be this is from running 'install base system' twice?
- but if I selected stable and dropped down to shell and
chroot /target
mkdir /proc

=>> while 'install base system' was running <<== and did this as soon as the
commands were available and before the error occurred.

I got past the 'install base system' and to the install kernel part.

This /proc problem exists on both a S2877 and S2865 motherboard - I also saw it
mentioned on debian-amd64@lists.debian.org

,.,.,

But still no joy - it couldn't properly install a smd kernel on raid - so it is
unbootable. (these should be Sarge kernels, but I don't see Sarge in the names
on the list of offered kernels??)

Today, I'm going to start over again and skip the RAID for now (I will use the
page I wrote here to move back to raid later - see :

I am now working with an installation image with root directory dates of May
6th. (I now loop mount these isos to find the dates and add a date string to
the end of the iso file name - how do you guys make use of reports without
knowing the build version of the package??)

I also found that there may be an issue about initrd and a change in the name
of kernel-image to linux-image - is there a particular kernel I should try to
install for sarge?